[Lazarus] How do you install Lazarus on Debian?

[Chavoux Luyt]

Hi Howard

On 8 November 2012 21:26, Howard Lee Harkness <howard.lee.harkness at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I'm a relative n00b at Linux admin stuff, but I'd really like to be able
> to run Lazarus on the Debian system I've just inherited at my new contract.
>
> I have done a checkout of the Lazarus svn repository per the instructions
> in http://wiki.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus. But when I execute "make"
> in the lazarus directory, I just get a bunch of error messages.
>
Do you have a specific reason why you want to install Lazarus from source
(svn)? In general I find it easier in Debian to download the .deb files and
install from there. Normally these will also ensure that the prerequisite
packages (e.g. fpc) are also installed.

HTH
Chavoux
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